A review by bananatricky
Going Deep by Anne Calhoun
4.0
Four rock my world stars!
I think this is the best Alpha Ops book yet. When I read the first chapter of this book at the back of the last I was intrigued and when I was offered an ARC? Well I jumped at the chance.
Cady Ward (aka Maud the latest pop sensation) has just finished a nine month tour and just wants to kick back and relax in her home town of Lancaster. She's bought a new house and she just can't wait to spend time with her mother and baby sister Emily. But when an over-friendly drunk fan tries to maul Cady after her concert at Lancaster's Field Energy Centre her manager Chris insists that she get a new bodyguard, and who better than Matt Dorchester's mysterious friend who stopped the fan in his tracks?
Conn McCormick is a beat cop, reliant on his hunches he doesn't think he is material for detective or promotion, too quick-tempered and built like a brick shithouse he intimidates too many people. When a guy he arrests turns up beaten to a bloody pulp and blames Conn he knows no-one will believe he didn't do it, so when his Lieutenant gives him the job of being Cady's police bodyguard while she is home he accepts with a bad grace.
I've tagged this as thriller romance because someone appears to be trying to victimise Cady but really this is an opposites-attract romance with a leetle bit of suspense. I guessed who had been playing with Cady's mind quite early on but it didn't spoilt the story for me.
I do get tired of saying that characters are grown-ups but Conn and Cady just are adults. They talk things through, they don't fly to assumptions or go off in a huff over some imaginary slight. I just loved Conn, he felt unworthy but who wouldn't when put up against a pop princess? Cady was down-to-earth and a lovely person, I fell a bit in love with her myself.
With this book Anne Calhoun has now become a "read anything by this author" autobuy.
EDIT: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
I think this is the best Alpha Ops book yet. When I read the first chapter of this book at the back of the last I was intrigued and when I was offered an ARC? Well I jumped at the chance.
Cady Ward (aka Maud the latest pop sensation) has just finished a nine month tour and just wants to kick back and relax in her home town of Lancaster. She's bought a new house and she just can't wait to spend time with her mother and baby sister Emily. But when an over-friendly drunk fan tries to maul Cady after her concert at Lancaster's Field Energy Centre her manager Chris insists that she get a new bodyguard, and who better than Matt Dorchester's mysterious friend who stopped the fan in his tracks?
Conn McCormick is a beat cop, reliant on his hunches he doesn't think he is material for detective or promotion, too quick-tempered and built like a brick shithouse he intimidates too many people. When a guy he arrests turns up beaten to a bloody pulp and blames Conn he knows no-one will believe he didn't do it, so when his Lieutenant gives him the job of being Cady's police bodyguard while she is home he accepts with a bad grace.
I've tagged this as thriller romance because someone appears to be trying to victimise Cady but really this is an opposites-attract romance with a leetle bit of suspense. I guessed who had been playing with Cady's mind quite early on but it didn't spoilt the story for me.
Spoiler
Although I'm not sure who it was peering through Cady's windows the first time?I do get tired of saying that characters are grown-ups but Conn and Cady just are adults. They talk things through, they don't fly to assumptions or go off in a huff over some imaginary slight. I just loved Conn, he felt unworthy but who wouldn't when put up against a pop princess? Cady was down-to-earth and a lovely person, I fell a bit in love with her myself.
With this book Anne Calhoun has now become a "read anything by this author" autobuy.
EDIT: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.